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[WSC19] Tracking Algorithm For Squash

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This is very interesting. I suspect you used a pretty high quality video camera (compared to, say, an iPhone 6s). I have fooled around with using iPhone videos to track various thrown projectiles (such as an indoor (so as not to damage the walls) shot-put thrown in a racquet court . One annoying feature of the iPhone video is that successive frame images are sometimes exactly identical, which indicates that something anomalous occasionally occurs within the innards of the iPhone. I am interested in seeing how close the trajectories are to exact parabolas and understanding the inevitable deviations therefrom. Once again, thank you for an excellent post.

POSTED BY: David Vasholz
Posted 6 years ago

First, congratulations Alex!! Second, I would suggest developing a three-body system similar to the famous three-body problem. Of course, we have forces like gravity and collision but are bounded. So it is clear we may assume Lipschitz continuity w.r.t time on the mapping that describes the trajectory of the ball. This dynamical system could be feedback with a neural network in order to calculate certain parameters of the system. I do not know if my idea is correct but may inspire other correct ideas. Angel

POSTED BY: Angel Rojas
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